CVE-2006-6508 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.21 allows remote authenticated users to send unauthorized messages as an arbitrary user via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Published: 2006-12-14

Score: 6.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:phpbb_group:phpbb:2.0.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-1488-1	New phpbb2 packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD	EUVD-2006-6491	Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.21 allows remote authenticated users to send unauthorized messages as an arbitrary user via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00729.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/23283
http://secunia.com/advisories/28871
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1488
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30786

History

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Subscriptions

Phpbb Group Phpbb

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:26:46.614Z

Reserved: 2006-12-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6508

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-14T00:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-6508

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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